For once a politician in power has dared to fling truth at the face of India and her patronisers. Chaudhry Nisar is Pakistan’s Interior Minister, and he has the responsibility too of doing the ruling party’s ‘dirty work’ on behalf of the Prime Minister. But on the 4th of August, 2016 the Saarc meeting in Islamabad was of the Interior Ministers of the Saarc. This gave Chaudhry Nisar an opportunity to say what he said— to register forcefully the point of view of the people of Pakistan that has been virtually abandoned by Mian Nawaz Sharif’s government.
It was clearly a departure from the apologetic utterances of our Foreign office and of the Prime Minister himself. And this departure couldn’t have been made by Chaudhry Sahib if he hadn’t the blessings of the Pak Army.
India and her patronisers were told that to point ‘disguised’ fingers at Pakistan in connection with the ‘acts of terror’ committed in Mumbai, Pathankot and Dhakka, was totally unacceptable for the simple reason that Pakistan happened to be the country which had been hit the worst by ‘terror attacks’ in the last fourteen years or so.
Chaudhry Nisar went on to draw the attention of the world to “the brutal terrorism” that the people of Kashmir had recently been subjected to.
“There simply is no justification for killing innocent civilians in a legitimate struggle for freedom”, Chaudhry Nisar said: “Freedom fighters cannot be dubbed as terrorists.”
This truth led the Indian Interior Minister Mr Rajnath to leave the Saarc meeting abruptly in unashamed rage.
Three cheers to you Chaudhry Nisar Ali. The people of Pakistan need a lot more of that kind of national spirit to lift their morale.
